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Type species : Galeruca furcata Olivier. 



Remarks: The name Cyclotrypema is derived from the Greek kvkXos, 

 meaning "round," and rpvirrjixa, meaning "hole." 



Cyclotrypema furcata (Olivier) 



Figure 101 



Galeruca furcata Olivier, Entomologie, vol. 6, p. 643, 1808. 



Ceroto7na furcata (Ohvier). — Dejean, Catalogue de la collection de Coleoptferes . . ., 



ed. 3, p. 403, 1837. 

 Neobrotica furcata (Olivier). — Schaeflfer, Brooklyn Inst. Arts Sci. Mus. Sci. Bull. 



1, p. 245, 1906. 

 Metrobrotica furcata (Olivier). — Bechyne, Ent. Arb. Mus. G. Frey, vol. 9, p. 596, 



1958. 



OUvier gave the iyp^ locality of this species as North America. It 

 was not found again for many years until E. A. Schwarz at last identified 

 the species with material collected at Brownsville, Texas. The exact 

 locality of the type specimen is not known. Schaeffer took the species 

 out of the genus Cerotoma and put it in Neobrotica. He wrote that 

 it was not even allied to Cerotoma, and that the deep round fovea in 

 the middle of the head of the male was unlike any species that he 

 knew, but for the present he would assign it to Neobrotica. Bechyne 

 has placed it in the genus Metrobrotica, but it has little resemblance 

 to the genotype, Cerotoma geometrica Erichson, except that it has 

 no lateral margin to the pronotum. The antennae are not different 

 in the sexes and the face in the male is unlike that of geometrica. 



Other localities: El Monte, Tamaulipas, and Montemorelos, Nuevo 

 Leon, Mexico, collected by W. Gertsch and P. Schrammel; Victoria, 

 Tamaulipas, Mexico, collected by W. Gertsch; Russellto^vn, Texas, 

 on Irish potato leaves; Brownsville, Texas. 



